Cinema News and Property Gazette (1913)

56 Supplement to THE CINEMA. January 15, 1913. THE CLARENDON FILM CO., 12, Charing Cross Road, W.C. "THE EYE OF THE IDOL." [Clarendon Co.) Oswald and Andrew are both in love with Angelina, the inventor's granddaughter. The inventor, Mr. John Heddison, explains u> Oswald the utility of a queer-looking Eastern idol which stands in the corner of his room. "The Eye of the Idol is really the lens of a kinematograph camera, and if anyone should break into the room, directly they stand on the mat by my table an electric circuit is completed, and the kinematograph camera in the interior of the Idol starts working." I In astounding manner in which this weird Eastern idol elucidates the crime committed by the jealous Andrew Fereira, who, to gain his own ends, has murdered his employer, is one of the most astonishing developments yet seen in the working out of a kinematograph drama. MOTHER'S 1>.\Y OUT." [Clarendon Co.) "All right, my dear, I will look after them all : the children, the parrot, and my own work." Father finds that he has undertaken rather more than he can manage. The children are dreadful. Tommy upsets the treacle on the baby's head, and they all scream and make enough noise to wake the dead. Father is distraught, and as his work is important, he at last adjourns to the kitchen. Here the parrot worries him, and eventually, when he is called to rescue baby from suffocation, the parrot escapes. The children have meantime completely wrecked the drawing-room, have broken two or three pots of treacle and burst several feather cushions. Baby looks like a weird bird, and the others are covered with patches of feathers. At last father returns to his work only to find that the parrot has escaped. In his endeavours to capture it he succeeds in smashing everything breakable in the kitchen. At seven o'clock punctually mother returns to find her home practically destroyed, father's excuse being on the grounds that the parrot has escaped, and is the cause of all the trouble, and when he leads mother to the cage to prove this assertion he is confronted by the artful bird, who has of her own accord returned to her cage, and is shouting "Liar" at the top of her voice. A BALD STORY." (Clarendon Co.) The first scene opens in a garden, where a number of welldressed persons are engaged in playing summer games. In the foreground a man, apparently of about 25 years of age, is whispering sweet nothings to a pretty girl. ently they adjourn, and in a quiet corner he proposes to her. In doing so he removes his hat, and we are astonished to observe that he is bald with the exception of a fringe of hair round the back of his head. The young lady reluctantly tells him that she cannot possibly wed a bald-headed man. Phone : Central 7320. Our hero tries by every means at his disposal to induce his hair to grow, but without success, until by accident he applies a vegetable fertiliser, when, before our very eyes, his hair is seen to grow with great rapidity. In the last scene he is accepted by his lady love, not, however, until she has proved to her own satisfaction that his hair is absolutely genuine. This she does by violently seizing her unfortunate suitor by his "hirsute appendage'' and lugging him round the room. "AN ADVENTURESS OUTWITTED." clarendon Co.) The story shows how a young officer in the army, who holds a responsible position as assistant to his father in the construction of a concealed fort, is fascinated by a girl to whom he is introduced in a restaurant. She is an adventuress, and is determined to obtain valuable secrets from him. Her plan is entirely successful up to a certain point. After she has known him for some months, she succeeds in inducing him to meet her late at night in the woods near his father's house. Her plan is to have him captured and held prisoner whilst she returns the way he has come, enters his father's study, and secures the plans of the fort. The young officer has a little brother, however, and the boyhas for some time past suspected something wrong, and on this particular evening has decided to follow his brother. He watches the scene of the capture, and, guessing the whole scheme, runs back to the house, and after telephoning to the police, he is just in time to prepare for the adventuress. She is accompanied by a male acquaintance, and as they slowly enter by the window they have no fear of the success of their plot. They have secured the kej' of the safe, and eagerly unlocking the door, they throw it back, when, to their amazement, they are faced by the courageous boy, who holds two revolvers in his hands, and compels them to stand still until the police arrive. When you have finished with this copy hand it to a friend. By so doing you not only help us but help yourself.